Edinburgh Celebrates Ancient Celtic Fire Festival, Marking Start Of The Eight-Month Season Known Locally As 'Winter'

Hundreds gathered for Samhuinn to mark the end of the warmer months, a phrase Scottish audiences treated as a gentle in-joke. Organisers staged their traditional 'dramatic stand-off' between the summer and winter kings, which winter, as usual, is expected to win. The flames were almost certainly the warmest thing anyone in the city will encounter until April.